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[labellementeuse]

So I forced myself out of bed at 10am and managed to hang out two loads of washing, have a shower, and get myself on a bus into town in order to catch Star Trek at 11. (This is massively productive for me.) I saw it solo because to see it with anyone I would have to wait until Sunday and well. I probably will go on Sunday anyway. But I didn't want to wait.


and it was VERTIGO VERTIGO VERTIGO. Ugh ugh ugh the scene with Sulu (btw: total hotass, my fave) and Kirk on the death ray? Aaaaaaaaaaaah. I was OK when they were falling through the air but the bits where they're hanging off platforms about to die? I HATE those bits.

But other than that? Loved it. I kind of want to mention that cast diversity that was ahead of its time twenty years ago, uh, isn't when you replicate it in 2009, but they were obviously making good-faith attempts to increase the numbers of women & people of colour in background shots.

ALSO: Casting thoughts: ZOE SALDANA, fuck yeah! Remember her from Centre Stage? AKA my favourite ballet movie ever? No? Well, you suck. I didn't realise that was actually Leonard Nimoy until the credits! Someone has mentioned that this movie was perfectly designed to make fans adore it because it cast a lot of people who are fannish favourites (Pegg, Cho and Quinto most obviously. I guess Karl Urban counts too because of Eomer; I should be more pleased to have a fellow Wellingtonian doing so well but, well, the dude went to Wellington College which means there is an 87% chance he's a total asshole!) I actually was sceptical about that before the movie because, well, I just could not see freakin' Sylar as Spock - but I take it all back! I was wrong! Amazing.

The other thing I thought about the movie was that I had the feeling it would have been so much more awesome if I had the canon background - kind of like watching the Lord of the Rings movies, maybe. Oh well.

So... Kirk/Spock, people. Where do I go?

Comments

[skadi.livejournal.com]

I loved Centre Stage. I think Saldana must be a bad ass person - she always plays one on the screen!

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Kirk/Spock, people. Where do I go?

Where don't you go? It is literally the archetypical slash pairing.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I realise that, having been a slasher for about nine years. But I prefer my fanfiction usually less than 6 years old, and there's a lot less of that. Plus, because K/S is so old there aren't the same kinds of resources that the modern fan is used to. Plus, I really want STXI fic. So, you know, *difficulties*.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well, these are the only things I've seen her in, but sure, why not! I srsly dig her.

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

You know, speaking of Spock, did you not find the out-of-nowhere Spock/Uhura relationship seem rather pointless and degrading to both their characters? (Although at least Spock didn't have the pointless bra-and-panties shot that Uhura had to suffer through)

[botrytis.livejournal.com]

I thought that was more setting up of Spock as the antagonist to Kirk's protagonist...

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Kirk didn't seem to be sufficiently interested in Uhura for it to be a real love rivalry, IMO. I think it was just opportunistic flirting. Certainly when he saw the two of them playing tonsil hockey on the transporter pad it looked more to me like surprise that a cold fish like Spock would be in a relationship than jealousy that he stole his girl.

But maybe that's just me.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Certainly when he saw the two of them playing tonsil hockey on the transporter pad it looked more to me like surprise that a cold fish like Spock would be in a relationship than jealousy that he stole his girl.

Which is exactly the reason I didn't have a problem with it - found it rather charming, actually. The relationship is thematically important for Spock, and frankly I was thrilled that they didn't then turn that relationship - and thus Uhura - into basically a tool for masculine posturing and competition.

The underwear thing didn't bother me either because she didn't exhibit shame about her body, which frankly is so fucking thrilling to observe in a film that I'm glad they put it in there even if it was fanservice.

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

So far there is a kink meme here (http://community.livejournal.com/st_xi_kink/379.html) and a general fic/squee comm here (http://community.livejournal.com/st_reboot/), neither of which are K/S specific (and the kink meme is mostly not)—but these are the only reboot comms I've found thus far.

I'm not sure where you go for old-school; I tried a really cursory delicious search and got hit with a lot of non-fic-reading fen links and meta, so.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

re: delicious, I usually do a tag search rather than a text search for pairings, because fans are very likely to tag fic links by pairing and non-fans aren't.

Thank you for the links! <3

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

I used to just change the delicious web address to whatever pairing tag I wanted, and then they changed the "/" to (I think) a unix code which I can never remember. This vexed me.

You're totally welcome. Please let me know if you find anything awesome anywhere else!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*looks slightly shifty* It's %2F. I had to learn it because that's pretty much how I read fic these days. :P

[maudlinrose.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

[guttednz.livejournal.com]

Hey! I thought the movie was really good. Much better than I expected. Far from perfect, but I feel it somehow made you very forgiving of it's flaws. After I saw it someone linked me to the wikipedia summary of the prequel comic. Helps make sense of what's going on.

Doesn't really resolve the major major plot hole of the fact that the bad guy completely missed the point of going back in time, and chose to go on a pointless vengeance mission instead of warning his home planet, which he could have done, and then gone on a vengeance mission if he really had to. OR am i missing something?

Here's the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=21208356